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News 12 Digital is highlighting the most-viewed stories of 2018 as part of our 'News 12's Most-Viewed' series. This story on a spring nor'easter was first published on March 10. Original story below.

Long Islanders are waking up to icy and snow covered roads following the latest nor&rsquo;easter.

Officials are warning residents to use caution while shoveling the heavy wet snow during today&rsquo;s cleanup.

Sun and clouds are expected this afternoon with highs near 43 degrees.

Overnight, Long Island saw 8 to 16 inches of snow during the nor&rsquo;easter.

Meanwhile, dozens of school districts have delayed openings this morning.

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For today, expect cloudy skies with snow tapering off around 10 a.m.

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With us. What a great group of girls that is always do such a great job. All right, back in the weather center now with Rich yesterday at the bus stop in the afternoon, the bus driver pulls up. He's like, where is everybody? And then we all come running out our doors to pick up the kids. It was that cold. Yeah, it was cold out there. You're more cold weather today before we see a warm up. But then we also track a storm and rich out here this morning. We're seeing some clear skies over portions of Long Island and the temperatures really tumbled overnight. Your view right now, Riverhead seeing that sun rise, it is going to come up right here over this tree over the next 30 minutes outside. In that page, you can see low on the horizon. You can see the hints of that sunrise, but right here, that's where that cloud deck starts. And you will notice more clouds today than sunshine with the cold weather conditions right now, cold twenties around the island. Your current temperature bridge Hampton at 2921 right now in Riverhead 29 Bajo 31 have said 32 degrees. Good morning in Valley Stream. The Oceanside Huntington's at 28 and 25 degrees. Right now in Smithtown, a little bit of a wind. It feels more like the low twenties around most of Long Island. So you need to bundle up as you go throughout the rest of our day. Some sunny breaks this morning. Then mostly cloudy skies, tracking some flurries and snow showers north and west of Long Island. There will be a chance that we see one nuisance festive flakes coming on through a rain shower, snow shower, it's cold this morning and temperatures once again will struggle to around 41 degrees for that high. You see a lot more clouds during our afternoon and then skies will start to clear overnight. So let's take a look going towards your weekend. We're good Friday. Saturday is a great day and Sunday, stormy weather coming in strong winds and heavy rain as we track the storm, there's a potential of winds 40 to 50 MPH with even some higher gusts late Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening into Monday morning. Be weather aware this is going to impact travel and also may knock down some of those Christmas decorations high today, low forties. Again, the chance of a rain or snow shower this afternoon, partly cloudy tonight. Lows are in the thirties and you can see nice weather Friday, Saturday, stormy weather, gusty winds Sunday afternoon into Monday morning.

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News 12's Most-Viewed: #1 - Spring nor’easter dumps over a foot of snow on parts of Long Island